select() is the best way to keep from blocking, at least if you’re not going to use threads or sub-processes.
Unless you’re going to support one or more of the intermediate sound libraries (ALSA comes to mind), then playing a sound involves opening a device, using ioctl()s to set the format and rate and the like, and then writing the samples out and closing, which takes me back to select(). > On Apr 20, 2016, at 10:13 PM, Mark Sims <hol...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Well, Lady Heather finally got off her ample ass and dug into the tao of X11 > and all things Linuxy. The program is currently working well enough to > display log files, etc. Serial port initialization for non-blocking > asynchronous I/O needs to be completed. I have it working on a couple of > Ubuntu Mate boxes (X86 and Mac Mini power pc G4) and a Raspberry Pi 3. I > need to tweak the Pi color palette initialization code... the bastards > defaulted it to a 16 bit RGB 565 frame buffer... > One thing that will probably not be supported is sound file support... > playing .WAV files asynchronously does not seem to come naturally to Linux. > Does anybody know of a simple / lazy bastard way to play a sound file in the > background from a C/C++ program... I'd really like my GPS disciplined > singing clock to work. > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
